Annual trip to Tunica provides wealth of blessings

Written by Julia Schulz
Friday, 05 August 2011 15:04

Every summer since 1995 the Tunica Community Ministry has hooked up with churches from all over the country to bring young missionaries to Tunica. Over the 16 year span, the program has hosted approximately 5,000 missionaries who have performed $40,000 worth of construction projects in the county. The construction work includes building wheelchair ramps, cleaning, and painting houses or other buildings in need and yard work, among other things. This summer, a group of 28 students, ages 12-18, and six adults from Pittsburgh, PA, made Tunica their home for a week. While here, the students visited the Palmer Home in Hernando, helped with a Vacation Bible School, visited the jail and performed construction work around town.

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Search on for missing TN man

Written by Meg Coker
Friday, 29 July 2011 19:44

Multiple agencies are assisting in search efforts for an 82 year old man who disappeared on his way to the casinos in North Tunica County.George W. Nicholson was last seen on June 29, 2011 in Arlington, Tenn. before he departed for Horseshoe Casino in Tunica. His vehicle, discovered near Hardin Point in the Tunica Cut-off area, has been sent to the Mississippi Crime Laboratory in Batesville, Miss., according to the Tunica County Sheriff’s Department.

Tuesday’s primary races drawing interest

Written by Brooks Taylor
Friday, 29 July 2011 19:40

Next Tuesday’s Democratic primary election will decide a number of county offices, including Sheriff, Chancery Clerk, Circuit Clerk, Tax Assessor/Collector, both Justice Court posts, and District 1 Supervisor, but will leave other races up in the air until the November general election.